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Ron Hardy, percussion for Tchai, at sound check, Municipal Auditorium.

Performance artists will take the historic stage at Municipal Auditorium, Shreveport, today, June 23, says Pam Atchison, in a Common Culture Week showcase sponsored by Shreveport Regional Arts Council.

From spoken word by Willetta to modern dance from Inter City Row Modern Dance and Louisiana Dance Collective, to musical groups Airheart, Twang Darkly, and Tchai, the range of acts presenting brief samples of their work is like okra to souffle’.

The evening opens with Destiny: Hope, a comic chamber opera about Miley Cyrus written by talented composer Costas Dafnis. The evening will close with remarks and a Best Of award to be given by San Diego arts critic Anne Marie Welsh.

$10. All ages.

Louisiana Dance Collective: Tamara Mayer, Emily Smith and (upside down) Emma Busi.

Photos Robert E Trudeau.